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Etymologies

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The preceding June had seen the graduation of the last class of "oldsters" -- of those who, after five years at sea, had spent the sixth at the Academy, subjected formally to its discipline and methods.

While I can vouch for this general state of feeling, I cannot be sure of its derivation; but I have always thought it due to the presence during the previous five years of the "oldsters," nominally under the same discipline as ourselves, but looked up to with the respect and observance which at that age are naturally given to those two or three seasons older.

The other morning I watched a group of seniors walking and was amazed at a little slip of an old lady, probably in her early 80s briskly leading the pack of 'oldsters', all of whom appeared younger than her.